How nightclubs became museum pieces for millennials

The Palladium, designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, features in a new exhibition, "Night Fever," at the Vitra Design Museum here, not far from Basel, Switzerland

In May 1985, the Palladium nightclub opened its doors to a Who’s Who of the New York art world. Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Larry Rivers were all there to check out the new club billed as a successor to Studio 54, the infamous nightspot that had closed in 1980, known for its wild parties and its unforgiving velvet rope.
 
The two venues defined New York’s night life in the ’70s and ’80s and had a lasting impact on pop culture: Studio 54 as the disco-fuelled hedonist’s playground, and the Palladium as a meeting place for the city’s cutting-edge